Future Suggestions NHL
Just a few offline suggestions for the future NHL games. Firstly is a quick suggestion for create a team. I like creating teams to mimic junior teams, and it sort of breaks immersion when they're in big NHL sized arenas. A fix to this, let us use the junior and semi-pro arenas that are already in EASHL. It doesn't make sense to me why these arena architecture templates aren't available in offline, but instead, only available in EASHL. Next, I don't know how hard this would be to implement, but give us the ability to use user-created custom logos for our teams, as well as the ability to create custom lines and other shapes on the jersey to come up with our own unique designs instead of relying on the preset ones that have been the same for years; similar to how NBA 2K does it. Next, is my biggest gripe of them all. Quickly do a Youtube search on top NHL snipes. You'll see that 90% of the shots end up with the puck quicky bouncing off the netting and rolling out of the net somewhere. So why is it that no matter how I shoot the puck in the NHL games, when it hits the netting the puck just drops dead, almost like you shot it at a brick wall; hell even a brick wall would make it bounce more. Essentially, I just want reworked net physics so that it actually feels satisfying to score. Make it mimic real life netting. Lastly, although this one is purely fantasy, I would like to see a re-imagined peewee to pro in the new NHL games, just like how it was in NHL Slapshot on the Wii. Maybe it could be an extension of Be a pro, but I just love the idea of starting as a kid in peewee playing on AAA teams and working your way up to the junior drafts. Then eventually, after tearing it up in the juniors for a couple seasons, you would earn your spot in the NHL draft. It just felt like a much more fulfilling career mode experience compared to what we have today. As you can tell, I'm a bit of an immersion head and would like some features that help to keep the immersion in check, and stray away from the arcade nature that the game feels like its headed towards. Anyway, whosever reading this, thanks for taking the time to listen to my suggestions.
JV
